Dangerous Drugs Act, 1934

“Corresponding law.”

3.—(1) In this Act the expression “corresponding law” means any law stated in a certificate (in this section referred to as an “international certificate”) purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the Government of any country outside Saorstát Eireann to be a law providing for the control and regulation in that country of the manufacture, sale, use, export and import of drugs in accordance with the provisions of the Hague Convention, the Geneva Convention, 1925, or the Geneva Convention, 1931.

(2) Any statement in an international certificate as to the effect of the law mentioned in such certificate or any statement in an international certificate that any facts constitute an offence against the law mentioned in such certificate shall for the purpose of this Act be conclusive.